What is another word for expressiveness?

Pronunciation: [ɛkspɹˈɛsɪvnəs] (IPA)

Expressiveness refers to the quality of being able to convey feelings, emotions, or ideas clearly and effectively. Some synonyms for this word include eloquence, articulateness, communicativeness, and fluency. Eloquence describes the ability to speak or write in a persuasive and powerful manner. Articulateness refers to the skill of expressing oneself clearly and coherently. Communicativeness describes the quality of being able to convey one's thoughts or emotions effectively. Fluency refers to the ability to communicate in a smooth and effortless manner. All these synonyms are related to the concept of expressiveness and can be used interchangeably depending on the context.

What are the hypernyms for Expressiveness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Expressiveness?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for expressiveness (as nouns)

Usage examples for Expressiveness

If anything was said in her presence which pained her, her distress was visible in a moment; and as a beautiful consequence of this transparent expressiveness, her gaiety was infectious and her affection shone out upon those she loved with tenderest radiance.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
The young aristocrat shrugged his shoulders and snapped his fingers in excellent imitation of Gallic expressiveness; then as Anne's twinkle reminded him of his being "jolly well fed up with foreigners," the change in his tone became as abrupt as the break in a boy's altering voice, and he added: "The point is that he's hardly a gentleman.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Her words flowed freely, and her voice had begun to ring and give play to a natural expressiveness that must hitherto have been dulled, he thought, by the shock and self-restraint of the past few days.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Famous quotes with Expressiveness

  • When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
    Peggy Fleming
  • A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
    Walter Pater
  • For most men involved with a woman who is throwing off the traditional feminine harnesses and restrictions, her liberation has meant nothing more than greater involvement with household chores, child care, and support for the woman in her new career and academic aspirations. In other words, it has only to his pressures, responsibilities and burdens, and stretched him thinner, without providing any obvious benefits in terms of greater freedom, mobility, expressiveness, security and satisfaction, feminist rhetoric notwithstanding. What feminists describe as beneficial to the man in these changes is an ideal—a potential rather than the reality of his daily existence.
    Herb Goldberg
  • research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.
    Daniel Levitin
  • Beyond a certain point - and that point is reached early - precision is what expressiveness depends on.
    Clive James

Related words: expressive writing, expressive essays, expressive language, expressive words

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